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Suspended over her hair colour?
Year 10 student Phylicity Ward has been suspended from attending school because of the colour of her hair. Is her hair colour good reason for her to be tossed out of St. Paul's High School? John & Sandy with the story.
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As a former member of St Pauls, I do believe that this has been taken way too far. What we have been told are 'unnatural' hair colours are a far cry from the red Phylicity dyed her hair - pinks, blues, green, purple etc. I think, due to the teasing she recieved about her natural red hair colour should have been taken into consideration when making this decision, because after all, isn't a student's welfare more important than what colour her hair is? This has been blown way out of proportion. And now we hear she has been recieving abuse and hate mail from her former peers and people she doesn't even know? Firstly, to the people from St Pauls who are doing it - our school has taught you better than that. You should all be responsible and mature enough to know that doing that is wrong and hurtful, not to mention illegal. Not to mention the people she has never met before, they should know better too. I'm sure she didn't mean for things to get this far, I don't think anyone did, so people should get over it and respect other people's rights.
Louise Tuesday 2 February, 2010 - 7:35 PM -
as a former student of the school i support the decision of the school. i attended the school up until 2008 and the rules were the same when i was there, and long before i was there. it was made plain and simple to us several times a year by both the principal and vice principal. we were constantly reminded of the rules we must adhere to regarding our presentation when in uniform and the consequences involved if we chose to not follow said rules. having attended the school for 6 years she would have been given plenty of chances to change her hair colour back.
if Miss Ward cant follow rules at schools how is she going to follow the rules out in the workforce, the majority of workplaces have rules on presentation and hair colour is definately one of them.
it seems also rather childish that her and her parents have run to the media with this. rules are made for EVERYONE! its not a choice as to whether a rule applies to you or not. St pauls is one of the finest schools in the newcastle area, if you dont want to follow their rules and be part of one of the best schools in NSW, then leave and go to another school.Mark Tuesday 2 February, 2010 - 7:34 PM -
Phylicity and i know each other from work. She is a lovely girl, and the school has no right to tell her not to be who she really is. How dare you say that she should get over it and dye it back. She is trying to make a statement, that individuality shouldn't be shunned, and as i get bullied also, i applaud her for defying the rules to be who she really is. Bullying is a very big issue, and the school is willing to put their policies over her beliefs. If everybody was the same, no one would jump out from the crowd, and many of the things we know and love would be non existent. Hair color is not an issue, and i advise the school board to put the student's welfare infront of their own stubborness.
Kristie Tuesday 2 February, 2010 - 5:49 PM -
She has the audacity to go on TV, make up to the full and saying this is who I am. Well, I love to wear T-Shirts and Jeans, but is that how I go to school. No it is called conforming to the rules, and guess what, rules are everywhere. Not made to suit this brat
Justme Tuesday 2 February, 2010 - 5:08 PM -
I am proud to say that I’m in year 12 and attend this school.
RULES ARE RULES. This 'child' was told before school ended last year (2009) that she would have to let the colour of her hair fade or change the colour of it before school went back (2010) and she was warned of the consequences. But she DISOBEYED the SCHOOL RULES and so the school took appropriate action. She was not expelled, just simply told not to return until her hair was a natural colour. In the Newcastle Herald the girl quoted "At this stage of my life, I do not need such nonsense that is so distressing and disruptive." Now, apart form the fact that this is coming from a 14 year old girl, if she really cared about school she would simply change the colour of her hair or enroll at a different school, rather than looking for attention in the media. It's also disturbing to see that her parents are trying to cash in this story with the media as well, wouldn't good parents want her to be at school instead of causing some insignificant waste of space in the newspapers, on the radios and the television.Anonymous Tuesday 2 February, 2010 - 4:42 PM -
I think that the school has taken appropriate action. As a year 12 student from that same school, any person that comes to school with an inappropriate hair colour gets plenty of warnings and I’m positive that this girl has many. She’s making such a fuss about it, all she has to do is change the colour of her hair and if she doesn’t like it rather than going to the newspapers and trying to make the school have a bad name, just enroll in a different school. And if she can’t deal with being told by a school to change the colour of her hair, what’s she going to be like when she enters the workforce ??
Anonymous Tuesday 2 February, 2010 - 4:21 PM
